Karmila Purba revs her motorbike under the lights of an Indonesian night carnival and rides up horizontally inside a wooden cylinder called Satan’s Barrel, drawing gasps from spectators looking down into the drum.
Human Rights
Nearly 100 refugee children in Indonesia have been given playing cards illustrated with people in a boat on heavy seas and stamped with the Australian government coat of arms.
Indonesia summoned Britain’s ambassador to explain the raising of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) flag at its embassy, and urged foreign missions to respect local “sensitivities” following a backlash among conservatives.
In the Covid-19 pandemic, disabled Indonesians had an extra hurdle to overcome when seeking information on health. The country’s information channels rarely took their special needs into account.
The topic of gender equality in Indonesia took the center stage of the recent Inspiring Women 2022 conference hosted by Berita Satu Media Holdings.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Indonesia in 2020, the medically recommended and socially acceptable thing to do was to stay at home and flatten the curve of infection rates. But not everyone had that privilege.
A popular Joe Rogan-esque podcast in Indonesia is facing backlash and calls for boycott from the country’s conservatives over a recent episode featuring a gay married couple.
While the idea has been around for decades, most thought moving the capital would never become a reality.
In late March, two Indonesian activists, Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti, were named suspects in a defamation case under Law No. 19 of 2016 on Information and Electronic Transactions (the so-called ITE Law).
Deaths of 12 women last month are the latest in a series of fatal accidents in country’s illicit mines.
Digital authoritarianism is becoming entrenched. New media laws offered the promise of protection, but online attacks have only increased.
Indonesia’s political regime may have changed but pressure on the media has not faded away thanks to new tools and techniques.
When Wawan was young, his family was perplexed by his behavior. He didn’t respond to his name or play with toys, only a metal spoon.
After more than a decade of advocacy by gender activists, Indonesia’s national legislature (DPR), passed a landmark law on sexual violence on 12 April, six years after deliberations began.
Good news for Indonesian women and girls: Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin recently announced that the government would incorporate the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine into the school-based national immunisation program.
Six teens lured to crew boats from their impoverished villages repeatedly told officials they were children – 12 years on, a court has finally believed them.
